'Descending' definitions:

Definition of 'descending'

From: WordNet
adjective
Coming down or downward [ant: ascending(a)]

Definition of 'Descending'

From: GCIDE
  • Descending \De*scend"ing\, a. Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. [1913 Webster]
  • Descending constellations or Descending signs (Astron.), those through which the planets descent toward the south.
  • Descending node (Astron.), that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing southward.
  • Descending series (Math.), a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding one; also, a series arranged according to descending powers of a quantity. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Descending'

From: GCIDE
  • Descend \De*scend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Descended; p. pr. & vb. n. Descending.] [F. descendre, L. descendere, descensum; de- + scandere to climb. See Scan.]
  • 1. To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend. [1913 Webster]
  • The rain descended, and the floods came. --Matt. vii. 25. [1913 Webster]
  • We will here descend to matters of later date. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic] [1913 Webster]
  • [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. [1913 Webster]
  • And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Anat.) To move toward the south, or to the southward. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Mus.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'descending'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Descending'